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astridianmayfly · 2 years
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honestly the ambiguity of whether the Web-aligned tapes pulled Jon out of The Buried or if the act of Martin leaving them was actually what did it is so important to the ending in retrospect. what do you believe in? love or fear? did their love take Jon and Martin Somewhere Else, or were their feelings just a means to an end? A way of getting the job done?
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beeapocalypse · 2 years
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killmebythebeach · 2 years
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So was anyone gonna tell me that s5 is so unbelievably sad or was I supposed to find that out myself.
#like obviously i knew itd be sad but im two episodes in and ive heard tim for the first time in 40 eps and sasha for 120#and gerry. ze boi. i didnt even realize it was him till the comics. why does he read like a teen protag in a ghost hunting story.#the leitner jumpscare to. sir. half the people in the institute would kill you on sight please go back to the tunnels.#elias being weird at jons birthday for no reason. like. i swear he wasnt that strange before the pipe murder dropping stuff for no reason?#'i like to keep an EYE on these things' sir with all due respect (none) shut the fuck up?!#idk why but tim and sasha talking like that just makes me so sad. of course its understandable for them to be frustrated#but also its not jons fault jonah chose him cuz he was traumatized by a spider book :( id be angry if i was sasha though#its also funny cuz i thought tim/sasha was a pyre fandom thing. no. tim literally calls it a 'will they wont they'. hes like a sitcom#gurtrude recording that tape to sasha basically lmaoooo#and i saw someone point this out in the comments but. gertrude keeping the place messy might have killed people.#not having easy access to information that could have saved them. such as her tape. ough#one thing i missed about tim in s3 is the charm. of course he was angry at. everything but it was heartbreaking to see tim change#so the tapes really made me just yearn for the like. two times tim was there in s1.#also the fact sasha knew about tims brother. and martins application. and that tim knew too.#i never really understood the fandom 'expert hacker' sasha but i think i get it now#i cant even remember if she hacked anything in s1. feels like so long ago even though i havent even been listening for 2 months#on that note martin and jon are going over to kill elias woo!#martin: hey this house is evil we should butn it#jon: nah. theres a lot of evil#holy fuck i forgot how stupid these characters can be sometimes. like even if you think it wont wotk just try? hello?#sasha calling gertrude a bitch is giving me life. yeah. she sure was. idc what she did she put micheal in the distortion#but im still so just. distraught by how somber the tone is. even with the s1 crew goofing around its just so. oof.#the funny quippy s1 crew cutting off to jon trembling alone in a corner does wonders for the tone#martin really went: i found the tea lets get this bread#king shit honestly. go get that bread and kill elias and stop the apocolypse or somethung. idk the goal of the season yet#like s1 focused on prentiss. 2 on stranger. 3 on the unknowing and elias. 4 on extinction and peter. im excited to see what 5 is#i dont even think weve met her but gertrude mentioning agnes. mwah. love you baby. doing great. shouldve gotten a coffeshop au.#sigh. statement ends#the magnus archives spoilers#the magnus archives
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milowave · 2 months
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there is a weird sort of comfort i find in any/all/most of jon and martins more lighthearted or loving conversations never being caught on tape... like imo the eye is totally uncaring of any of jons feelings that it cant use to help itself, it doesnt deem it as important and therefore whnever they say i love you to each other its never in front of a tape recorder which is. GOOD yeah but it adds a layer of sort of privacy and protection to it ??? because like there is no way during the whole of s5/the safehouse period neither did anything romantic for each other, no matter how small. but like im almost happier we dont get to see it because i feel like it makes it a lot more intimate??? like . its a THEM thing. were not meant to see it. the affection they hold for each other isnt meant for the benefit nor the viewing of others. it definitely separates thwm from everything/everyone else a little since they are the only two able to see each other at their most vunerable but idk i think its kinda nice. like they reserve all of this only for one another idk i think its sweet (adds a bit of normality into their lives too yk like they can kiss and whatnot without needing to be reminded of doom looming over them) and i mean id say both of them are generally pretty closed off?? like we know jon is HORRIBLE with expressing his feelings and while martin is more encouraging of jon doing so hes still not an open book (or at least i think so idk) . so i think its nice that when in love theres still this like. air of mystery around it. ESPECIALLY since they both already are shown to find comfort in solitude in like kind of a ritualistic way imo??? like jon always records his statements alone and ik part of it is martin not wanting to hear them but like in the safehouse he doesnt really seem scared and his main reason genuinely seems to be that jon wants to read them alone. martin also records his poetry alone! he has one of his biggest reflective sessions alone! twice! ik this is a little different to what i was talking about at the beginning of the post cause its caught on tape but still i hope it kinda makes sense and still connects??? idk i just think its really sweet how aware they are of the space they both need while also having such strong feelings for each other . privacy is such a big thing for them!! i never wanna see them on tape again!!
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confusedfeelsfangirl · 6 months
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JONATHAN SIMS
PITIFUL WET RAG OF A MAN MOTHERFUCKING JONATHAN SIMS. 
GOD DAMN BELOVED WIMP ASS STATEMENT GATHERING ,SAD BACKSTORY, LACTOSE INTOLERANT VIBES, AVATAR OF THE NERD, BLINDEST EYE PATRON OF THE CENTURY, KIDNAPPED FOUR TIMES IN 100 EPISODES MOTHERFUCKING JONATHAN SIMS
YOU CAN KEEP CRINGE LIKING MY POSTS I ENJOY THE NOTES I LOVE HIM SO MUCH 
WHY DOES HE ALWAYS END UP IN THE MOST FUCKED UP SITUATIONS , EVER SINCE HE WAS A CHILD ??? NO WONDER HE ENDED UP AT THE ARCHIVE, OBSESSIVE ASS AUTISTIC CODED BITCH
THIS LIMP WRISTED SAD PATHETIC MAN HAS SUCH A VISCERALLY POSITIVE EFFECT ON ME, NOT EVEN IN THE ROOM NEVER SEEN THIS MANS FACE, AND I KNOW HE HAS THE WORLDS MOST DEPRESSED COLLEGE PROFESSOR YOU WANT TO HELP WITH HIS COMPUTER VIBES 
If i wanted to get into heaven and god said I had to recant all that I’ve ever said about him being adorable and wanting to wrap him into a bundle of towels like a kitten, I’d simply go knock on hell’s door, they at least might accept my pitiful man loving ways. Almost a full ass lesbian and I would marry this man just for the sake of protecting him from the horrors.
If I have to deal with one more person insisting I have a crush on the voice actor and showing me his picture, I will start digitalising myself to escape their bullshit no good hearing and reading comprehension and I will slow down their internet connection out of spite
i dont even know why i love him so much. he reads messed up stories but i am just obsessed because i am projecting.
he better have some more fucked up backstory episodes bc if I never get to acquire more lore on him I will just have to write it myself 
I hope he gets some affection and love soon cuz if he doesn’t I’m going to make him 
paypal.com/IFuckingLoveJonSims
Almost all the episodes have him in them and its still not enough. vaguely see something that reminds me of him and I black out and lose my train of thought for the next 20 minutes
I’ve been spoiled about the ending, but I won’t let that stop me from hoping he gets the peace and love he deserves, i love denial and ignoring canon 
I'll lovingly squish jon and his sad pitiful little archivist body will simply crumble to pieces when faced with how much I love him until all that's left is one final statement recorded on his trusty tape recorder titled MAG 201 “A Jon Stan” written in curly-q handwriting on top
im not breathing im hyperventilating at this point
i hope theres a date given for when he’s resuscitated or appears as a cryptid to haunt people so i can make it a reminder on my phone
 once a year i will see it and will do so many little things to pay respects to the man who recorded hundreds of fucked up little stories and still couldn’t escape his destiny to became one himself.
(very much inspired by the Jurgen Leitner rant : https://jurgen-leitner-rant.neocities.org )
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initial-lime · 6 months
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Ok OK. SO. i had an idea.
Jon, but instead of just being marked by the fears he gets an “ability” from each, the eyepocalypse required all the fears together so instead of a person marked by them all they created a single vessel of fear, shared among them.
Jon holding on to the tape recorders not because the web places them there but because they are his. Of course he still doesn’t know the bigger plan but they’re his. Tapes and his. Manipulations. People ask him if he knows what’s listening and instead of being confused he simply says he is
After the prentiss incident theres about a handful of worms still around but he starts regarding them as friends, he keeps them in a little terrarium in his office MUCH to Tim’s frustration and Martins worry
After he gets marked by the hunt by Daisy he’s technically already “hunting” first in order to stop the unknowing and after his victims so that barely needs change
I can’t think of ways for the others to manifest right now but like think about it. Jon as an avatar of ALL the fears, it already ties into his arc with loss of humanity except even more so because there’s never been anyone else quite so far into it
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nonsal · 2 months
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i have a lot of thoughts about ep 7 of the magnus protocol, so here are a few observations :D
[spoilers for TMA and TMAGP ep 7]
ever since Celia was first introduced ive been wondering how much she remembers/knows... she mentioned tape recorders, asked if theres anything tying the read out statementy together, then mentioned looking up specific things and gave these examples "buried alive" and "meat" - two TMA fears. and SHE RECOGNISES "CHESTER"'S VOICE!!
then immediately after that we hear a recording of Sam asking Colin about an email from "John/Jon *random surname*"?? Colin telling him "wait until you see the real stuff", and before breaking Sam's phone "it's already recorder [too much]". HE KNOWS THAT THEY ARE BEING RECORDED! HOW MUCH DOES HE KNOW!?!
and the statement itself is also quite interesting. they mention hilltop in oxford!! they were doing charity work and that immediately reminded me of the halfway home run by raymond fielding, which could be considered charity work as well. the items that the "volunteers" donated all seemed like artifacts to me. maybe they were trying to create a warehouse of sorts, similarly how breekon and hope worked as delivery men for various entities
unfortunately i cant see how this episode would fit into the "desire theory". i cant see any desire there, maybe the volunteers desired doing something "for a good cause"? i dont know :((
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*kicks open door after listening to episode 60 *
ITS ELIAS
Based on all the little scraps I got from spoilers cause I was too curious and impatient, along with the clues Im getting now, I just know its that fricking sus british man (Elias, not Jon).
For one, because of the spoilers I only know that Elias is revealed to be evil later, that his name is Jonah and that he can assumingly watch and know things about others. Keep in mind thats all the facts I have. I dont have the hows or the whys to give me enough dots to smoothly connect Elias to all these cases of people being watched from Jon to Gertrude to the man from the Crusader episode to the woman in this episode.
Theres probably more but my memory is crap (I should really start making a map with red string and notecards but I dont have enough room).
Now I could be wrong because someone (or more likely something) could've killed Gertrude, but my guess is leaning hard on Elias.
Idk what those papers were about though. The ones the lady in ep. 60 had thrown away or smth and replaced the cargo with petrol that was absolutely going to the Magnus Institute. However in on of the animatics I watched that had spoilers galore (see: "Martin's arson asmr" on youtube) Elias was very adamant that Martin didnt burn any more statements and went to harsh lengths to make sure Martin didnt.
Idk whats going on with that the same way I dont know why the tape recorder in THAT video seemed sentient or smth. Maybe in order to read their minds or watch them, they have to have a statement in the Archives, but that doesnt make too much sense seeing as how the man from the Crusader episode hadn't put in a statement and he felt the feeling of being watched just as much as the others, and Jon felt like that before he gave his own statement after episode 39.
I NEED ANSWERS!!
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diana-westmoon · 1 year
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avatarofthelonely · 4 years
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i have like such a strong hunch that the recorders really are just a part of jon but i have nothing to back up the confidence i have in said hunch other than I Really Feel It
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Martin: i dont want to hear you vent
Jon: well i literally feel like a cup overflowing so...
Martin: well tough
Jon: ill just say it to the tape recorder. Wait outside
Martin: no, theres a war out there
Jon: well tough
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deny3verything · 3 years
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tma-audience connection hc
okay i was thinking about the nature of the tapes as part of the web and how they just pop up when important things happen, but it’s never really discussed what happens to them after they’re done right? and like georgie really gave it her all to destroy that one, i can’t remember but i don’t think jon mentioned them disappearing the same as they appear (correct me if i'm wrong). i think that means that following the spontaneous recording, these tapes just exist somewhere. i’d like to think the tape is left behind and the recorder disappears, to be disposed of or just left alone
maybe the tapes had previously been thrown in the garbage, but who knows if they were actually destroyed or if they’re just spread across a landfill, still playable. that’s all pre apocalypse of course, cause theres no place to throw them away after. so when they pop up during the apocalypse martin and jon just leave them behind marking wherever they’ve been. and since there was that one last tape that the girls found in the rubble, they obviously continued to exist after the fears left, so IM SAYING jon and martin left a physical trail of tapes stretching from scotland to london that now actually resembles somewhat of a straight line
what if people find the trail of tapes and document the findings online. there’s an entire reddit page dedicated to finding these weird tapes and piecing together who jon and martin were. then they find the ones with niche podcast celebrity georgie barker and disgraced paranormal youtuber melanie king and there’s a huge conspiracy. i like the in-universe memes for after the apocalypse, but realistically no one would know who the archivist was unless they met him (which very few people actually did who didnt know him before, and even fewer survived) and no one at all would know or recognize martin. all they would know about the apocalypse is what they can piece together with the tapes they find and, i assume, whatever they nag out of georgie and melanie
maybe the podcast is the final product of the reddit page after they’ve gathered every tape they can find, assuming the archive fire and collapse couldn’t actually destroy the tapes. i like the idea that a sort of true crime-esk fandom came together over this to really scour the continent for tapes, and that people broke into the site of the collapsed institute after dark to dig through rubble in torchlight, then collected the tapes and brought them home. maybe the statements themselves couldnt be recorded digitally but recordings of the tapes could since it's a secondary source, and thats why we can listen to it but still hear the wrrr of the tapes. maybe theres even lost tapes that were never found, most likely just important conversations between characters and no actual statements, that were displaced to the bottom of the ocean or something. the lost tapes could be the patreon exclusive fluff episodes
i don’t really have a solid note to end this on, just that it’s a plausible connection between us as the audience and canon. we could be the world they left behind
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viviantimmet · 4 years
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Jon is literally the archives AU
- Jon’s statements are scattered, his shelves are falling apart, theres absolutely no filing system, and several rare documents are being treated very poorly.
- Martin is the Archivist, and he is gonna fix the place up. He finds it tragic that its in such a state, and has also done quite a lot of research on what he’s meant to do, bc, you know
- Jon dislikes him bc he clearly has no clue, coming in and sort his files chronologically with no regard to the fears
- Jon also distrusts Martin’s dilligence, because the last Archivist, Gertrude, did worse by him the more she figured out, and eventually tried to burn him down.
- Yes this contradicts his general annoyance tgat Martin doesn’t know about the fears. The former is his way of ignoring how terrified he is.
- anyway, So hes kind of subconsciously trying to keep Martin from learning anything useful mostly just by generally being a dick.
- files go missing, Martin gets lost in the stacks no matter how sure he is he’s memorized the layout. Other stuff too but its 1am and i cannot think of anything else.
- jon can talk via tape recorders but he’s giving martin the silent treatment (cuz hes scared)
- anyway its def a slow burn, but shit goes down when Martin gets kidnapped by some avatar or other. Maybe Jane, but maybe im a little sick of that station of canon
- in any case Jon has to suffer a week or so w/o Martin and suddenly realizes that actually he cares.
- up to this point, Martin has been developing this like, fond annoyance with Jon, the same way you feel about the old falling apart car you learned to drive in.
- but as jon starts to reciprocate and reveal himself, it transitions quite naturally into the fond annoyance we tend to refer to as “old married couple vibes”
- it is very important to me the jon doesn’t have a human form in this au. Martin will marry his place of work, and it will be glorious.
- tim and sasha can be there too ig, mostly to tease Martin about this
- at some point, avatars attack, and jon gets to show off just how much of a death trap he can be if he really means it
- their first meeting is definitely still Martin letting in a dog.
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Season 3 notes popping off
due to my desire to not completely fail all my classes this year i made myself slow down significantly while listening to this season, and the fact that the other person i'm listening along with had to catch up. We've managed to convert several other people to start listening and its pretty great.
ep 81: what does it even mean to be chosen by one of them? And if he was chosen by the eye. we know Gertrude wasnt? Because she cut the eyes out of the magazines?
ep 82: elias lmao. I understand why people like him so much bahshdhdk i thought he was gonna snitch on Jon but he didnt so he's fine. Ok but how do we think he knew all that stuff. Idk probably just institute connections. I love the fact that the recorder just wants to record stuff randomly bjahsjdhd. Elias feels a lot like Michael in the sense that he knows more than he should and talks in a way that implies he just wants to wait and see how things play out for his own benefit. I understand him knowing the things that happened but his description of her emotions implies something paranormal. Maybe he's connected to one of the entities. Which one I cannot guess.
ep 83: did a file get delivered randomly to the place he's staying at? Probably elias lmao. He thinks the mannequin is related to the stranger. Idk I would believe it.
ep 84: worms? I know he says earth worms but idk. Again? Is she making gordon golems out of trash? Martin popping off. You can tell the statements get to him more that they get to Jon. How come martin is so mad about it? I want to assume he just doesnt want her to get stuck there but idk. Jude Perry. The calliope organ. Jon heard a circus in one of the last episodes
ep 89: he's talking to perry? Like jude Perry? He says ... God? Is that what it is? Lmao. The Desolation. Jon is tired of ppl being vague and not telling him stuff lmao. Oh God Jon is so confused. Compel her? Is she assuming he has some kind of power? Does he have powers? Hmm. im agreeing with jon here please jesus christ why does everyone have to be so cryptic. Just say what you mean. "maybe you get an itchy eye" bahasjkdfklsjdf girl what. Agnes saved her? Oh this is the girl from the cafe story? So theres the Cult of the Lightless Flame? They worship whatever entity this is? The Desolation? Why do they all seem like they sorta worship her then? Is Gretchen gonna die oh god. fuckin michael. a different michael aaah. i see. dont do it shes gonna burn you. sir. please. sir dont you dare do- WHAT DID I SAY what did you think was gonna happen hhh.
ep 90: try to make it less obvious you're trying to get fired big T. Elias that doesnt sound like the most healthy thing to do. oh dear is this gonna be triggering for me. uuuuuh. uuuuuuuuuh. doesnt seem like it ok gonna keep listening. Jared. hmmmmm. Ok we've seen Keay and hotner or whatever his name was.
ep 91: Michael Crew. Oh is this the lightning scar guy. Mister jon sir did you just die. No? God everyone is so fuckin cryptic. Say normal things please. They all just like to go on about pain and agony and j e s u s c h r i s t we get it you got hurted by whatever thing. So theyre avatars? question mark? Jude Perry is an avatar of The Desolation? hhhh fractals. thats a spiral thing innit. Yup. messing with your perceptions. God they all talk about feeding their god and feeding that which feeds them and. hh what does that meann. Leave big J. please. uh oh. is it daisy? how come he has the web lighter still? the tape recorder just turns on sometimes you know how it is. So he can compel people? not that he knows it obviously but. a bit wack. powers go brr i guess? If the eye just wants knowledge i guess he feeds it by getting the statements? b/c i doubt it wants him to murder ppl or whatever.
ep 92: elias you all knowing fuck what do you know. (i guess all given what i just said) Lukas. Heard of them before. Mordecai Lukas. Loneliness. The lonely even. Jonah Magnus. Elias ur sounding like a bit of a dickhead rn. lmao jon's just like "i dont care" elias what is ur deal. Why does he want to tie her in. ohh i see. lmao theyre all just like "elias why" The Unknowing lol seems very much like something the eye wouldnt like. lol elias is gettin all philosophical. what does it really mean to be human. this still doesnt answer why gertrude wanted to destroy the archives tho.
ep 93: bahsjdfh he seems so dead inside rip. awww admiral. i love him already. ghh breacon and hope. purple mold. doesnt sound like anything we've seen so far. I think the funniest explanation for breacon and hope is that they dont actually serve the stranger they just kinda happen to be a random neutral party that cart around random spooky entity related stuff. ooooh. when we hear the slight static of the tape recorder it's cuz he's compelling ppl.
ep 94: the end! listen man they were all just grayed up for 4/13.
ep 95: the end also? death but also savagery/ animalistic shit. aww martin. lmao becerra. she's just been chillin in the corner.
ep 96: return to sender. haha minecraft go brr. prediction: breacon and hope? yup there we go. jon why is there an echo. are you in a stairwell? is he gonna eat it- yup. how did i call it. unsure abt what theyre talking about but ok. they kidnapped someone? Sarah Baldwin. ooooh that guy.
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ok im just putting this here so i have notes for when nicholas gets to this part. It seems like (from jon's conversation with jude perry) that the desolation and the eye are kinda at odds with eachother? like i guess not directly but it seems like they dont really vibe? so how could be with both. Cuz if he has the heat powers and shit then we know he's an avatar of the desolation. but then why does he have so much eye imagery. also he got burned intentionally? like jude did when she went on her monologue about the feeling of burning? but then why did he wear the eye pendant. it stops him from being burned all the way which seems like he's not fully accepting the fire or whatever.
Nooooo I lost like a bunch of my notes rip. I keep forgetting to save.
Ep 104: tim gives a coherent statement without jon even being there. Ugh. Fucking robert smirk. Dont like him. Joey. Dont recognize the name. The show must go on. Clown. The spooky circus?
ep 105: total war... shogun 2? jon is just understanding languages again. "if i understood mandarin or cantonese" are you sure you dont big man?
ep 106: havent we heard this one already? mans in space? oh no this is just another episode in space. fairchild... uuuh. cant remember. oh! this is related to that! this is one of the ppl from the other side. sounds like a Vast thing. oh he's the one that the dude saw? but that guy didnt have a face... she's sorta like jon. wanting to dismiss the statements. lmao i love the workplace gossip. ace jon for the win! oh cmon elias dont be a dick. sunny meadows or whatever. thats the place we heard about.
ep 107: oh great is it jude perry again. Third Degree. bahahsdkfj she was arrested. sorry but imagining this old british lady getting arrested is funny. she was trying to resurrect him. using the skin book. he's not feeling well. jon take a nap. i wonder if this is what happens when he uses his powers too much. He gets into The Zone when he reads statements lol. didn't we have a burning train car in anothre statement? is it julia fairchild? bahahahs "kidnapped. Again." poor jon honestly. julia... about her dad. daughter of the murder shed guy? hunting like your dad liked to hunt or normal people hunting. oh hunting vampires!
ep 108: melanie has been suffering. poor martin peter lukas why do you have to be like this. can he not just use the front door? does he have to bother the ppl doing statements?
ep 109: how come he cut her off? kinda rude tbh. its either jon's influence or there was smth he didnt want her saying. is it gerard on the table? this sounds kinda like smth from one of the university episodes. is it the closed eye on the hand? yup. he's like one of the students! if the thing listening in is elias then... he can do that without the tape recorder yknow. plus who's to say it wont just turn itself on again
110: who wants to bet its a leitner?
111: Lukas related to The Lonely. I used to not like Gerard that much but i like him more now. but i thought there were 15? ohhh thats right isnt flesh newer? gerry for the win honestly. finally telling jon things.
112: lol "again" no one ever tells any of these ppl anything. tim and basira are just out of the loop constantly. music, like the war episodes. The hunt or the slaughter? probably the hunt. so Daisy is related to the hunt right? basira likes the reading, she's doing fine at the institute. daisy's getting worried...
113: it just turned on randomly. what is it lol. explossives! oh boy. why do they always assume he turned it on intentionally. melanie youre not making me like you that much. which entity is this about i cant tell. lol he was disappointed it was just the end. The title Breathing Room made me think it was gonna be about the buried but i guess not. So many of these entities deal with death but the end is one that deals in just death. it has no need for fancy deaths, just death is enough
114: more hilltop road statements? the tree. oh boy. ok the tree has 8 arms obviously theres the spider parallels. was she taken into an alternate universe? oh no. jon tries to phrase things so he's not asking questions. thats honestly good. "sometimes i was kidnapped" oh dear. they got gertrude. daisy ur so odd lmao. who wants to bet they dont know the tape recorder's running?
115: silaca? or whatever? antique man? meat grinder... related to the meat is meat episode? oh wow. they buy antiques from him. maybe dont antagonize this creature which can kill you?
116: lol theyre all just so done with elias. music? is it like the one band that if you hear them you die or wtvr. oh its chess? i am very much confused. mmm stranger go brr. gorilla skin? oh shit the dance. woah. this is so good. this is so gender. the words are wonderful. "you can just say tim" lmao trying to fool elias never feels like a good idea.
117: except elias lmaoo. oh shit. leitner getting some use for once idk. bruuh poor melanie she has been thru so much shit. martin you can just say youre worried about jon. lol he's so accurate in his jon impression. lol who was that. was that daisy? lmaoo. oop hi tim. oh god i hope tim doesnt die. i feel like i wouldve heard about that? but im not sure. destroying the source of knowledge is gonna be hard for jon. yay jon! you did a good thing. let him rest.
118: go off martin lmao. awww poor martin. oh god the tape gets that squealy quality and its awful.
119: woah. lots of things happening. uhh. POP OFF TIM!!
120: lmao elias giving a statement about jon's dreams lol. damn jon doesnt even get his own dreams? has to stay Watching even when he's asleep? f in the chat this man goes thru so much shit. oh boy its peter. lol martin my beloved. idk i dont trust peter.
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nightmaremerchant · 3 years
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there are so many parallels between tma and i am in eskew its not even funny, but the one im thinking of after this week’s episode is the way eskew ended, with eskew expanding outward and exploring new territories, and its kinda open ended on whether it took over everything but i assume it did. so that even though david knew he could not live in a world outside of eskew bc of how much it had changed him, it didnt really matter bc by the end there was nowhere to go that wasnt touched by eskew.
anyway that could be how tma goes, with all the fears expanding outwards through the cracks into all the other realities, right now we only know the fears are in the same one as the show but with the tape recorder web being so complex.... what if there really wasn’t a chance for jon to put this world back in order even if he wanted to? what if it ends with the fears expanding into everywhere else, and it has that open ending of eskew where the cast just has to come to the decision to keep moving forward, keeping hope not because theres some entity of hope or love or anything but because its the only thing left to do?
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limelocked · 3 years
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I’m sorry but what is tma. Every time I see it I think it’s “tmi” and burst out laughing. Is it a podcast? A show? A book? A street lamp?
bro i am about to pop off
tma is short for The Magnus Archives and its a horror podcast created by Rusty Quill in its final season, its on youtube (up til mag 182), and on all major podcasting platform id assume but i listen from spotify, theres a transcript group that make transcripts for every episode and theyre usually up to date within 5-7 days of a new episode (they also have a good trigger warning system for the newer episodes before the podcast started officially adding warnings themselves)
story tldr is that Jonathan Sims (voiced by Jonathan Sims) is the archivist at the esteemed magnus institute in london, an institute with the mission statement of collecting and researching paranormal items and events and its his job as archivist is to run, well, the archives! and the thing he does is try to record the statements of peoples paranormal events to audio for accessibility however some of the statements only record on tape and Those are the statements We get to hear 
it starts as an episodic thing but theres a way bigger story in the background that you first i think get a taste of in ep 22 colony
of note: - jon is ace biromantic in canon and currently dating a man - jon is a prick and a dickhead sometimes and its addressed as something that people around him shouldnt have to deal with even if hes Like That for sympathetic reasons - look im not a horror person, i dont like horror, not even really usually psychological horror which TMA is but i fucking love this podcast so much - it has a neat “”””magic”””” system
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